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From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
To: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [C source] Inconsistent comments on preprocessor conditionals
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2022 02:21:40 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed0717c8a97aec8dc02d2e2d47e39765@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875yk73e12.fsf@disroot.org>

On 2022-07-09 01:55, Akib Azmain Turja wrote:
> #ifndef FOO
> #else /* not !FOO */
> #endif /* not !FOO */
> 
> Very confusing though.

It could be confusing to have an else clause with an
"if not" in the first place (that double-negative is
there regardless of whether it's commented that way
too); but of course Eli is right -- my logic doesn't
hold for that scenario.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-08 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-08 12:47 [C source] Inconsistent comments on preprocessor conditionals Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-08 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-08 13:33   ` Phil Sainty
2022-07-08 13:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-08 13:55       ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-08 14:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-08 14:21         ` Phil Sainty [this message]
2022-07-08 16:28         ` Sergey Organov
2022-07-08 19:54     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-11 12:42       ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-08 12:57 ` Po Lu
2022-07-08 13:47 ` Alan Mackenzie

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